Hello
Are there any plans of bringing the web-based bug interface up again?
(http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html)
Peter
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From: Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You're right - most of the documentation is geared towards setting up
a server. That's because that's the difficult part, and setting up as
just a client depends on which of the many clients you've chosen.
Basically, what you

Hi,
On one of my FreeBSD boxes the daily (nightly) output (security, check
Etc.) stopped after a system upgrade a while back. I'd like to get the
output mails back. Today I receive one mail from this server with the
following content:
No output from the 24 files processed
How can I restore

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:21:55AM +1030, Tim Aslat wrote:
I have a M7MKA mainboard (Biostar) slot A Athlon, with a AMD751/756
chipset. According to the documentation I've found it has a winbond
W83782D hardware monitor which is supposed to be supported by healthd.
My current attempt at

Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote:
Hi,
On one of my FreeBSD boxes the daily (nightly) output (security, check
Etc.) stopped after a system upgrade a while back. I'd like to get the
output mails back. Today I receive one mail from this server with the
following content:
No output from the 24

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:25:39AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:21:55AM +1030, Tim Aslat wrote:
I have a M7MKA mainboard (Biostar) slot A Athlon, with a AMD751/756
chipset. According to the documentation I've found it has a winbond
W83782D hardware monitor

Can FreeBSD rotate the log file by the size,or some program can monitor the
size of the file.
Shen Chao
Check out newsyslog and newsyslog.conf
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 05:57:06PM +0800, shen chao wrote:
Can FreeBSD rotate the log file by the size,or some program can monitor the
size of the file.
Yes. See the newsyslog(1) man page.
Cheers,
Matthew
--
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i'm having huge problems with localizing the messages sent to my FreeBSD
box by my router and my firewall appliance. all the messages seem to be
congregating in /var/log/messages, when i don't want them to.
i'm thinking that, the following might be an issue.

Hi all,
I'm prodding at FreeBSD 5.0 and making sure I can still do everything
I did in 4.x. I'm now trying to prep for a make world and I've run
into a problem.
/etc/defaults/make.conf doesn't seem to exist anymore. There is a
/usr/share/examples/make.conf but that doesn't contain any of the

Hi!
Has anyone successfully used the scanner Epson Perfection 1260 with
FreeBSD (Sane)?
Best regards,
Paul
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
i understood him this way: glibcs *portability* is large, since
it is not only portabel over several archs but also over several
kernels.
bsds libc is less portable (only accross different archs) so its
portability is smaller.
At a

# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-21 10:15:10 +0100:
On one of my FreeBSD boxes the daily (nightly) output (security, check
Etc.) stopped after a system upgrade a while back. I'd like to get the
output mails back. Today I receive one mail from this server with the
following content:
No

# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-16 12:52:23 -0800:
Did a clean buildworld, installworld, etc. etc. on a 4.5-RC1 system up to
4.7-STABLE release. Everything went through fine, no problems.
Rebuilt kernel and installed the new 4.7 GENERIC kernel, no problems.
Ran mergemaster, did a

Is there any work in progress making a thing like OpenBSD's authpf
available under FreeBSD (with fx. IPFW) ?
/mich
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Im have a network of 4 PCs:
One running RedHat 7.2, one running WinXP, one running Debian and the last
(a laptop) running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE.
The RedHat-box acts as a NAT gateway to the internet, and runs a DHCPD to
give out IPs, DNS-servers and such, and here comes the problem. The two
other

After I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE yesterday I receive some errors
in the /var/log/messages file. These errors occour only when people try
to send mail via webforms on websites hosted on the server. Here is an
example:
Jan 21 13:40:12 server sendmail[44046]: h0LCeCp6044046: SYSERR(www):

On 2003-01-20 16:32, Gary Schenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am attempting to use Pine with fetchmail and sendmail over a cable
modem to my ISP.
There is some basic setting that I am unaware of. I now can send
mail and newsgroup messages out over the internet, but the return
address is

Hello,
is it possible to configure a virtual tape, just working on an other
harddisk? Lokaly or on any other Server in the network
Writing an reading on it should be transparent for commands like tar, cpio
or any backup software.
Or in other words: Can you only load a driver for an non existent

On 2003-01-21 09:06, Peter I. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are there any plans of bringing the web-based bug interface up
again? (http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html)
I want to test a setup of Gnats that forces moderation on all incoming
bug reports, before trying to make any sort of

On 2003-01-21 10:41, Wayne Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm prodding at FreeBSD 5.0 and making sure I can still do
everything I did in 4.x. I'm now trying to prep for a make world and
I've run into a problem.
/etc/defaults/make.conf doesn't seem to exist anymore. There is a

Hi all,
have somebody who know how can be increased LDAP query speed, some conf
option or other way? I have, my self developed web based software for
RADIUS server + LDAP authentication + mySQL accounting. Work fine, just
I have speed problem. I support about 300 user in my LDAP db. Still the

The oddest thing.
I just went to the apcupsd site (apcupsd.com + org) in search for the latest
version, and lo and behold, my NAV 2003 (on my XP machine) warns me that
their ftp site just tried to sneak in a Trojan virus (Sockets de Trois v1)
onto my system. :( So much for getting the latest

+++ Grant Peel [freebsd] [19-01-03 16:24 -0500]:
| Hi all,
|
| I have three servers.
|
| Each server has two NICs.
|
| One NIC on each server (fxp0) will be used for the Internet, and I have a
| seperate switch and the IPs Subnets etc from the ISP so all is well.
|
| The other NIC on each

howdie
built X 4 from source or using package I'm getting:
snip
XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 3 September 2002
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
newer than the above date,

Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote:
After I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE yesterday I receive some errors
in the /var/log/messages file. These errors occour only when people
try to send mail via webforms on websites hosted on the server. Here
is an example:
Jan 21 13:40:12 server sendmail[44046]:

ilovefd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am a user of FreeBSD-4.7.
I baught a Mother board(P4QH6) with Xeon MP from Supermicro.
Supermicro says about P4QH6
Yes the MP Xeons and this motherboard can fully access 32GB of main
memory. The processor is a 32 bit instruction code processor, but is

#define LANG de_DE
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Christian Tanghe wrote:
Hello,
is it possible to configure a virtual tape, just working on an other
harddisk? Lokaly or on any other Server in the network
Writing an reading on it should be transparent for commands like tar, cpio

Don't top-post, please.
Joe Verba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
still gets hung there
down to waiting 15 secs for SCSI to settle it
just
hangs there,
what more info do you need (the address above will
bring up the hardware info),
Try *not* eliminating the conflicts, and see what

Sorry - for the german reply, but Christian has BBC'ed his message to
the german Cosmo-Project mailing list.
I did noticed it to late...
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:34:36AM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote:
i'm having huge problems with localizing the messages sent to my FreeBSD
box by my router and my firewall appliance. all the messages seem to be
congregating in /var/log/messages, when i don't want them to.
i'm thinking that,

In 002b01c2c0e4$880c9e40$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Gary Schenk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
typed:
I am attempting to use Pine with fetchmail and sendmail over a cable modem
to my ISP.
I can't help with pine. Hopefully, someone else will tell you how to
configure pine's username.
The fetchmail man page says

I was wondering if anyone could tell me what would get backed up when I
issue this command.
dump -0u -f /NT/FreeBSD/012103 /
basically I want to do a full backup of everything in the root dir to
/NT/FreeBSD/012103 which is a mounted drive.
so does this backup everyting on the comp?
like when I

Kenzo wrote:
I was wondering if anyone could tell me what would get backed up when I
issue this command.
dump -0u -f /NT/FreeBSD/012103 /
basically I want to do a full backup of everything in the root dir to
/NT/FreeBSD/012103 which is a mounted drive.
so does this backup everyting on the comp?

Hello, I cannot use VMware 2.x on FreeBSD 4.7-prod
because I don't have a 2.x license #. I use VMware
for Linux host but I cannot use that 3.x license # on
my FreeBSD system.
Can you direct me to where I can find a work-around?
or how I can run VMware 3.x on FreeBSD?
Any help is much

please at least keep the mailing list among recipients: see my
signature.
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-21 08:36:33 -0800:
Or maybe, are you really sure you have the proper devices in /dev?
No, I'm not. At this point I'm not sure of anything, seems like. All I've
done in /dev

First, I thank the whole team of you folks for being there when we need you...
Can someone please point me to where the lint libraries are for libc?
The doc says /usr/libdata/lint but that is empty...
I searched the entire source on my machine, and found nothing.
Please, help!
Regards,
Ernie

At 2003-01-21T15:38:07Z, Paul Everlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thank you, Kirk Strauser!
NP. Unfortunately, we've since moved said scanner to my wife's iMac, and I
switched from FreeBSD to Debian, so I have no record of the settings
required to get it working. Still, it was pretty easy. I

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:38:43PM +0100, Mark wrote:
The oddest thing.
I just went to the apcupsd site (apcupsd.com + org) in search for the latest
version, and lo and behold, my NAV 2003 (on my XP machine) warns me that
their ftp site just tried to sneak in a Trojan virus (Sockets de Trois

# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-21 08:36:33 -0800:
Or maybe, are you really sure you have the proper devices in /dev?
No, I'm not. At this point I'm not sure of anything, seems like. All
I've
done in /dev is a MAKEDEV std with the MAKEDEV directly from /usr/src,
without removing the

Sorry for the english/german mix...
Perhaps I did not get my question to the point:
How can I simulate a real streamer with tapes _transparent_ for any
backup software (and any FBSD or Linux OS).
It would be nice no use the implemented database of the backup software
(like Yosemite/Tapeware or

Hello.
I have a problem at home with my local network.
I have 2 FreeBSD computers.. One FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE and one 4.5-RELEASE. When i telnet
to the 4.5 computer and open mutt (with the editor ee), i can`t type in swedish. I
mean that I can`t type all the letters. How do I solve this

You'll have to excuse the ignorance of my question. I
guess that would be the best way to put it. In trying
to one your releases I saw that you can install from a
dos partition.. What I don't understand is what files
i'm supposed to have there. I can't use an ISO image
to burn a CD at the

You'll have to excuse the ignorance of my question. I
guess that would be the best way to put it. In trying
to one your releases I saw that you can install from a
dos partition.. What I don't understand is what files
i'm supposed to have there. I can't use an ISO image
to burn a CD at the

I used to use a font alias ibm-cp437 or 'vga' to get a xterm with dos
linedrawing fonts. (as -fn and -fb param to xterm)
I did a clean install of 4.7 for some reasons, but somehow I can't manage to
get linedrawing again, and can't find 437 encoded fonts in font.alias files.
(I already

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:05:00AM -0800, amar contractor wrote:
You'll have to excuse the ignorance of my question. I
guess that would be the best way to put it. In trying
to one your releases I saw that you can install from a
dos partition.. What I don't understand is what files
i'm

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 04:16:23PM -, Per Nilsson wrote:
Hello.
I have a problem at home with my local network.
I have 2 FreeBSD computers.. One FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE and one
4.5-RELEASE. When i telnet to the 4.5 computer and open mutt (with the
editor ee), i can`t type in swedish. I

did you let mergemaster run MAKEDEV for you, or did you run
/dev/MAKEDEV std
while being in /usr/src? If the latter, you didn't rebuild the
devices in /dev/, you created them in /usr/src instead! That would
indeed explain your problems.
No, I just meant that I copied MAKEDEV

# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-21 09:42:23 -0800:
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-21 08:36:33 -0800:
Or maybe, are you really sure you have the proper devices in /dev?
No, I'm not. At this point I'm not sure of anything, seems like. All
I've
done in /dev is a MAKEDEV std with the

Dear Sir or Ma'am:
Do you have alternative servers for HTTP transactions? Currently I am
using software which doesn't support FTP transactions very well. Is
there one avaliable to download FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE from or will be
anytime soon?
Thank you,
James
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did you let mergemaster run MAKEDEV for you, or did you run
/dev/MAKEDEV std
while being in /usr/src? If the latter, you didn't rebuild the
devices in /dev/, you created them in /usr/src instead! That would
indeed explain

After running adduser (successfully), the /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd
files are not shown updated with the new user entry until one logs out and
logs back in.
Is this 'feature' normal, or a benefit of soft-updates or bug in buffer
cache?
Thanks.
BTW, is there any possibility of

does anybody out there have a decent script to backup between hard drive.
also what about a script to back up to back up to a tape drive as well.
if you have pointers to cool programs that does this well?.
thanks in advance,
Noah
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Hello!
I have a FreeBSD3.2 PC connected to a LAN network. I
would like to connect my Win98 notebok to it via a
serial null modem connection in order to have access
to the Lan network.
I would like to do this with pppd command; I have been
trying to do it but without result.
It's possible to do

Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
does anybody out there have a decent script to backup between hard drive.
also what about a script to back up to back up to a tape drive as well.
if you have pointers to cool programs that does this well?.
I've used rsync with great success. It really does a good

Karl M. Joch wrote:
How to safly and completely remove Perl / UUCP and maybe others which
have been removed from the source tree. UPDATING doesnt mention anything
about it.
regarding Perl/UUCP, I have no idea but would be curious to know this as
well.
Furthermore there is need for doing

Bsd Neophyte wrote:
unfortunately, i don't know the severity rating of the messages that the
firewall is sending.
Starting syslogd with the '-vv' flags will tell you the facility and
priority. This is great for testing new logs.
maybe you can help me out. a typical message looks like

I've attempted to install FreeBSD 4.7 on an a new HP computer (734n) with an
AMD Athlon XP 2400. In doing so, I ran across a few problems. They are
detailed below:
FYI: I installed using the ALL option.
1. On execution of startx:
Error Message: Could not lookup internet address for . This

Hi all,
Me and my wife is VERY soon off to where she will give birth to our new
baby. As I wanted to be able to send fresh pictures I ran away and
bought a Sony Cybershot.
The manual seem to say the camera can be mounted as a removable drive
from Windows, how about FreeBSD?
I would be most

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Curtis, Brian A.--ORISE wrote:
Subject: Problem with FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE after installation
I've attempted to install FreeBSD 4.7 on an a new HP computer (734n) with an
AMD Athlon XP 2400. In doing so, I ran across a few problems. They are
detailed below:
FYI: I

Dear/Beste Karl,
Tuesday, January 21, 2003, 8:50:22 AM, you wrote:
How to safly and completely remove Perl / UUCP and maybe others which
have been removed from the source tree. UPDATING doesnt mention anything
about it.
Furthermore there is need for doing installworld on some boxes far

I ran into a snag using my HD backup script that works like a charm on
FBSD-4.5-4.7, but won't when I just tried it on 4.4. The script uses Fdisk,
Disklabel and Newfs. Seems to fdisk disklabel okay, but when I try to
then run the newfs on a partition, like /dev/ad2s1a, it says, no such file
or

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 18:21, Miguel Mendez wrote:
On 20 Jan 2003 18:16:53 -0500
Joe Marcus Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a good FTP mirror package to mirror the FreeBSD FTP
site. I had been using ftpmirror for over a year now, and it just now
deleted my entire

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
Hi all,
Me and my wife is VERY soon off to where she will give birth to our new
baby. As I wanted to be able to send fresh pictures I ran away and
bought a Sony Cybershot.
The manual seem to say the camera can be mounted

I am trying (in vain so far) to get ssh to allow me to connect using
public keys and without any prompts (I need this for a software
distribuiton/configuration package I need to run). I have had this work
before, but now it seems to escape me. To simplify my testing my client
and server system is

In the immortal words of Matthew Seaman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Of course, immediately I sent the above, I noticed what was wrong with
that picture.
Try adding
device amdpm
to you kernel config...
Thank you. It worked like a charm, and now that I know what I was
lacking, I

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:34:17AM +1030, Tim Aslat wrote:
In the immortal words of Matthew Seaman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Of course, immediately I sent the above, I noticed what was wrong with
that picture.
Try adding
device amdpm
to you kernel config...
Thank you.

At 2003-01-21T21:39:52Z, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry for this slightly off-topic post... Is there a comprehensive list
of IM servers (names, IPs) available? I'd like to block IM servers from
certain users on my network.
No, nor will there be one. Anyone with a server can

Hi,
Perusing my logs, my query-log (BIND 8.3.4, FreeBSD 4.7R) is suddenly filled
with odd queries for extra. Like so:
XX /207.217.120.20/extra.asarian-host.net/MX/IN
No extra exists, btw. It seems some for of attack. Many of these queries
also come from legitimate name servers, so I cannot

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 02:01 PM, Bob Willcox wrote:
I am trying (in vain so far) to get ssh to allow me to connect using
public keys and without any prompts (I need this for a software
distribuiton/configuration package I need to run). I have had this work
before, but now it seems to

Hey,
When you add a path to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable will it
recursevely check all subdirectories?
For example:
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/home/lib
Will /usr7home/me/lib/sub_lib/ also be checked for
libraries?
Do I have to set the variable this way to check the
sub_lib
directory:
setenv

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:38:33PM -0800, Michael K. Smith wrote:
Hello:
Did you create your keys with no passwords, as in ssh-keygen -t dsa
then just hit return a couple of times instead of giving a password?
No, I didn't try that yet...just did now and it works! Great! :-) What
is

Hi all,
I have been researching a way to completely mirror a disk once or twice a
week. At this point, it looks like a small script using dump is in order.
My question is for all the rsync fans. (I have installed and am reading man
pages). What would you suggest for a command line in crone to

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 04:01:40PM -0600, Bob Willcox wrote:
I am trying (in vain so far) to get ssh to allow me to connect using
public keys and without any prompts (I need this for a software
distribuiton/configuration package I need to run). I have had this work
before, but now it seems to

I have both freebsd 4.7 and 4.6.2 with either linux_base-6.1_3 or
linux_base-7.1_1. I am installing linux-sun-sdk14 and
jakarta-tomcat-3.3.1_16.
In order to set tomcat up for SSL connections, I need to generate the key
and certificate. I normally use this command to generate the key and

John Bleichert wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, aydun wrote:
Subject: Need help with Sound Card
Hi,
I've got a Rockwell WaveArtist card (RWA010, R6711-31) but I can't
configure FreeBSD 4.7 to see it correctly. Bios sees it ok at 0x220
it works under Windows (IRQ 5)
It's supposed to be ISA

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 03:00 PM, Bob Willcox wrote:
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:38:33PM -0800, Michael K. Smith wrote:
Hello:
Did you create your keys with no passwords, as in ssh-keygen -t dsa
then just hit return a couple of times instead of giving a password?
No, I didn't try

* Alex [01/21/2003 21:01]:
How to safly and completely remove Perl / UUCP and maybe others which
have been removed from the source tree. UPDATING doesnt mention anything
about it.
Furthermore there is need for doing installworld on some boxes far away
in multi user mode. any chance

Grant Peel wrote:
Hi all,
I have been researching a way to completely mirror a disk once or twice a
week. At this point, it looks like a small script using dump is in order.
My question is for all the rsync fans. (I have installed and am reading man
pages). What would you suggest for a command

Hi,
I have an Intel D815EEA2 mobo with six integrated USB ports.
FreeBSD only works with two of them, those besides
the integrated NIC connector. I have done /dev/MAKEDEV usb2
but when I do /usr/sbin/usbd -f /dev/usb2 I get a
usbd: Could not open /dev/usb2, Device not configured
I'm guessing that

Sorry for this slightly off-topic post... Is there a comprehensive
list of IM servers (names, IPs) available? I'd like to block IM
servers from certain users on my network.
From what I've gathered on google, the only effective stragegy is to
use firewall (in my case, IPFW) rules to block IP's,

I hope someone out there can help!!!
I need just a theoretical question answered.
I have machine A = Gateway 400 MHz, FreeBSD 4.7 with 4 ethernet cards = dc0,
rl0, xl0 and xl1.
I want to bridge incoming dc0 to rl0 for a pass through traffic shaping
firewall to the web and mail servers on

GP == Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
GP 1) Does anyone KNOW when the root servers update DNS for hosts (NS's)?
GP 2) We were planning to change the DNS about 11:00 P.M. this Saturday, Taking
This requires advanced planning on the order of the TTLs of your
domain records. First thing is